hello - i'm sumi somaskanda - this is the context on bbc news. we are not there, we haven't lost hope either. especially in light of today's discussions, there's a for progress. we cannot allow under any circumstances, for iran to have a nuclear bomb for us, it's an existential threat. it's the political issue, the said they gave everything away to donald trump and trump need something more than what obama received in 2015.

coming up on the context in the next hour: a fifth round of us-iran nuclear talks wraps up in rome. we consider where they're headed and the prospects of success. former national security adviser john bolton joins me live. we're awaiting verdicts in the trial of ten people - accused of stealing millions of dollars' worth of jewellery from reality tv star kim kardashian. we'll be live in paris. almost ten years ago and 2016, let's go to paris in a correspondent is standing by for us. could it see you, tells of the decision today -- good to see you. 20 minutes, guilty verdicts are eight of the ten accused and most important of those verdicts are of the man who it was alleged as having established held her up, four men who went to the hotel that night and they went to her room and held her at gunpoint and

gagged, bound her and took millions of dollars with the jewels and downstairs, they guarded the entrance and the key suspects and they were all found guilty and the man was accused of being the ringleader admitted being a part of the plot and a part of doing it but said, the higher are commanding him and he is found guilty and given eight years in jail and five suspended. the others were given seven years in jail with five suspended and that is very important because in this case, the events happened a long time ago and several, if not all of the suspects of springtime pretrial custody and it happens that these sentences are of two or three years of actual jail as opposed to suspended will translate into them not going to jail at all because they've already served the terms they

been sentenced to. the president of the court said a lenient sentence but one which reflects their age, their frailty and the fact that all happened so long ago now. thank you so much for your reporting. a fifth round of us-iranian talks aimed at resolving the decades-long dispute over tehran's nuclear ambitions ended with some but not conclusive progress according to negotiators. the latest talks took place in rome with oman mediating. it says the hope is that remaining issues can be clarified in the coming days. iran's foreign minister abbas araqchi has described the negotiations as "professional" and says there's potential for progress but the talks are complicated. there's been no comment from the us delegation, led by donald trump's middle east envoy steve witkoff. but there's still thought to be a significant gap between the two sides, with the us demanding that iran we can speak to john bolton, former national security adviser under president trump. always good to have you and thank you for joining us.

looking up at senior administrative officials of set the talks are constructive that they look to be making some progress for more work needs to be done, what you think that tells us that the stage? unfortunately, i don't think it tells us much. the critical issue here is whether iran is going to be allowed to enrich uranium and there is no compromise on that point, either they are allowed like they were in the 2015 deal, the essential flaw in the deal and in the present state of affairs, ron is happy to tap, tap, tap these talks along because i'm but if it's them and they are concealing their programme of moving parts around and they're very worried about an israeli attack and so, their habit of six or seven rounds and how much overtime they can keep it going. we have seen president trump hard in their tone recently in recent

weeks saying that we cannot allow iran to have a nuclear weapon in the sentence. do you think this is going to end another round of talks or move to another round of talks or could we see this, perhaps not progress for now? it is hard to say from the incomplete reports we have but we think israel would be prepared to act on its own and the times they have acted before against nuclear threats, bombing saddam hussein's reactor in 1981, bombing the reactor built for iran by north korea in the syrian desert in september 2007, they did not ask washington's permission before the acted, they distracted. why do you think president trump keeps on going to say he wants an agreement? that's a very good question. if this is donald trump's way of saying and giving them an ultimatum, either you really concretely do something to show us you've

made a strategic decision to give up the pursuit of nuclear weapons or we will not interpose any objection to israel attacking the nuclear programme and maybe will even join in. if this is his way of giving them an ultimatum so we can say that the rest of the road one more time, we gave them every chance that i am fine with that, i would not of done it this way but he would do it his way and is being sucked along by the iran group one more time and going down to his political detriment in the us. we also want to ask you a bit about what we saw earlier today in the white house as we saw, dawn from hosting other world leaders, the leader of south africa and we saw what is described by some as an ambush and the video played with don from holding up what he said was evidence of attacks on white farmers in south africa and is someone who has been in the room with donald trump meetings with officials from

other countries, this is the new standard of how diplomacy is going to be conducted with the trump administration? donald trump loves it because it puts them on tv and the president did not seem ambush, you seem pretty well prepared and held his own, i think is going to discourage people from wanting to meet with donald trump if that's the kind of treatment they can expect and is most boring of all that the information he presented, the films and the press articles do not appear to have been vetted by anyone on his national security staff intelligence community or anybody else to see if they're accurate or not and that very disturbing because the president has access to the best intelligence in the world and if this material is not vetted against what we know to be true from our own information, it is a very serious problem. how much

do you think this is driven by president trump himself? how much do you think it is those in his administration like stephen miller? it is 100% driven by donald trump and what better situation can you imagine them to be on television almost hundred percent of the time? great to have you as always. russia and ukraine have begun exchanging prisoners, in what's expected to be the biggest prisoner swap of the war so far. ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky says he expects there to be further exchanges over the weekend. his statement reads: the first stage of the "1000-for-1000" exchange agreement has been carried out. today - 390 people have been swapped. on saturday and sunday, we expect the exchange to continue. these are some pictures released by the ukrainian presidential office showing some of the released prisoners. and these are pictures from the russian military showing the first group of prisoners of war returning

as part of the swap. our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse was with families waiting for their loved ones to arrive back home. this is a different side of prisoner of war exchanges in most families here do not even know whether their loved ones were involved in today's exchange at all or whether they're set to follow tomorrow or the day after that or whether they are even still alive and what is happening here is showing pictures of their loved ones with the soldiers have been released in the hopes that they will know them or know how they are doing, whether they are said to be released or not and it's very moving and you can feel the anxiety and also feel the disappointment felt by the majority of people here for whom it is been almost an impossible weight and there is little to no information that comes out when a ukrainian soldiers captured by russian forces. this is always been the

sole area of cooperation between russia and ukraine and this, this major exchange, which include civilians, is the only breakthrough in an otherwise fruitless endeavour led by america to try and bring a lasting peace. despite that, donald trump believes that this will be the start of something more and the foundation of some kind of cease-fire for the lack of accompanying evidence, you feel that is more of a hobo but for now, in this courtyard in northern ukraine, -- hope, a rare bit of good news and relief for the minority of family members, not least the soldiers are home for the first time in

at least 12 people have been injured in a stabbing attack at the main train station in the german city of hamburg. some of whom are in critical condition and a person has been arrested and looking into the story for us, what do we know at this point? as you say, it's a developing story but we do know that 12 people were wounded and six of them were critically wounded in understanding is a woman started stabbing people with a knife at the central railway station in the city of hamburg which is a really busy central hub when it comes to travel and this happened at around in the afternoon local time during peak rush hour and it would've been even more crowded and so, really alarming and really important to say that we do not know at the motive behind this

and the assailant is a 39-year-old woman and it is believed, according to german police authorities that she acted alone when she attacked people on the platform, it is described as being between 13 and 14 of the station and the fire service saying that those six people who sustained life-threatening injuries while another three were seriously injured and three had slight injuries and a developing situation but understandably, a lot of concern and i was stressed once again, motive still unknown. we will keep across that story with the latest report in germany. stock markets around the world have fallen sharply, after president trump reignited his trade war with the european union, threatening to impose 50% tariffs on all eu imports, effective from the first

of june. in a post on his truth social platform, donald trump says the eu was formed with the primary purpose to take advantage of the united states on trade. he says the bloc has been "very difficult to deal with" and that discussions over tariffs are 'going nowhere'. he'd announced 20-percent tariffs on eu goods last month but suspended that to give space for negotiations. mr trump maintained a 10-percent levy on imports from the 27-nation bloc and almost every other nation around the world. the president has also threatened to impose an import tax of 25% on apple iphones not manufactured in america. i'm not looking for, we said the deal is 50%. we have a lot of requests and you don't have the people to handle it, everyone wants to make a deal. i'm sure now the european union wants to make a deal very badly but they just, they do not do it right. they don't go about it right. let us see

for more on how the eu may respond to this announcement - let's speak now to bernardine adkins, an eu competition and trade lawyer. very good to have you with us on bbc news today. saying to her bbc reporter, the white house, i'm not looking for a deal, we set the deal and it's at 50%. what you think of that? i think we're seeing a little bit of theatre, performative trade for want of a better word. because drawing from all of this, i think the motif of all of this needs to be, from an eu perspective and the rest of the worlds perspective is keep calm and carry on. in terms of eu trade, this is largely an un-manufactured issue because broadly, abundance of trade between the eu in the us and yes, there is more in terms of the discrepancy in 3% of trade as between the eu in the us that is some what unbalanced and some that i could easily be resolved with goodwill and so, we are getting a bit of fluff

and tit-for-tat of the moment and donald trump is wrapped himself up to the top of the head, 50% and question whether the eu, there's certainly tooled up in professional, this is not the first rodeo in terms of trade discussions. so, there are already going to retaliate when they decide and they have a preapproved package of tariffs to head back, so to speak. do you see this as part of the art of the deal as he heard the white house say very often? it's the art of the no deal because if you look at the uk, the uk has agreed with the us, but it's falling pages long but in terms of the trade agreement and it actually expresses in the first page of this is not a legally binding document and discussions were discussions and are they going to have discussions about

disclosing tariff rates and from the uk business perspective, and other motives. yeah, it's probably going to happen in practice in which you would like to have them practice is to and avoid discussions about preferential tariffs because of the eu was to grant preferential tariffs, that would contradict the principle of global trading. if i could just ask you what they are looking to have happen, if these tariffs were to actually go into effect, but with the impact be on the eu? that is probably people would be, there may be a crisis because people would have to pay the tariffs would people don't often appreciate in the us is that these prices, depending on the elasticity of the goods will be

passed on to us consumers of this would be inflation to the us but i do not see that happening that sort of catastrophe of the situation. with the european commission, you have the room and with donald trump, we had tariffs there and he went across another freedom and have our discussion that ended with a drama and he agreed the eu would supply more soybeans in the tariffs were dropped and there will continue discussing it. as a game sabre rattling but ultimately, we should get a more reasonable deal because put the eu in the us have so much to lose and not coming to some form of arrangement to consider stable transparent trade with each other. before we let you go, what do you think the strategy is for eu negotiators going into talks? is it to put forward a certain concession, what you think that

would look like? well, i think they absolutely do want to have more strategic cooperation and it will be around energy and g6 mobile networks in sensitive sections and trying to bring people together rather than bringing them apart and i think it devalues the approach these taken but will be about knocking down numbers of this from tariffs. thank you for joining us on bbc news.

until now, the video which is been getting increasingly realistic was only visual but this week, google launched a version that includes audio as our ai correspondent reports, it is been held for none of these clips are real. they are produced by generative ai. they've been created by a new video-generation model from google. it has a vital film-making trick up its sleeve. we can talk. no more silence. yes, we can talk! we've got used to seeing ai-created video, but adding dialogue or making characters speak, or adding sound, has required the use of several different bits of software. this ai model, called veo 3, does all of the work, creating sound and vision, after receiving simple typed instructions or prompts. there's all this, all these fears around ai, but with hollywood and filmmaking and commercials and all these things, yeah, everyone's like, am i going to have a job in two years? so far, veo 3 is only available

in the united states, but when it was announced earlier this week, it sent ripples across the creative industries. rishi coupland is director of research and innovation at the british film institute. rishi, does this kind of technology threaten human jobs? well, it certainly offers opportunities for new efficiencies and new ways of doing things, but that doesn't necessarily mean job losses. as they bring in these technical innovations, they still need human creativity, human collaboration across every part of the workflows of what they produce. where were you on the night of the bubble bath? while i report on ai, we managed to make an ai reporter in a matter of minutes. but does tech like this make it even more difficult to believe our own eyes? that's my line. henry ajder is an expert on ai disinformation. i don't think we should see this model as particularly unique in its potential for harm or for misuse, compared to other generative models. what i would say is the quality of the video that it can create

with that consistent voice audio, in such an easy package and such an accessible format, is really significant and we can't ignore that when, again, you have the power of a hollywood studio effectively in the palm of your hand or potentially on your web browser. i want to say something important, something deep. but new, more powerful ai tools like veo 3 beg one big question of creators. what are we going to talk about now that we can talk? i have no idea. what do you want to talk about? marc cieslak, bbc news. emergency teams in northwest pakistan have been battling forest fires stirred by his gorging heat that gripped several parts of the country. some areas are seeing daytime temperatures between 48 and 50 celsius about which are much higher than average for this time of year. officials have issued huge wave lives of millions ash make and millions are suffering partial power because as power suppliers and to save electricity. experts blame the intensity of extreme weather patterns in the region on human -induced climate

change. the australian prime minister anthony albanese has described the floods affecting new south wales as horrific. tens of thousands of people remain cut off after floods engulfed parts of the region north of sydney. four people are now known to have died as the area suffered half a year's worth of rain and justly days. the rain has now moved toward sydney, where their fears the main reservoir could overflow. now, and religion man woke up to an unexpected visitor in his garden. this huge container ship. the 440 foot vessel on the nearly missed the house. it is appears the man is a deep sleeper, because the commotion did not wake him up, as graham satchell reports. imagine waking up to this

rammed into your front garden - an enormous container ship. it ended up missing johan helberg's house by a matter of yards. given the size of the vessel and how close it came, mr helberg's reaction was remarkably phlegmatic. translation: it was lucky he went ashore right there. five metres further south, then he would have entered the bedroom, and that wouldn't have been pleasant. the disaster, which happened at 5.00 in the morning, was witnessed by a neighbour, who ran to mr helberg's house to try to rouse him. translation: i rang the doorbell several times. nothing happened right away, so i thought maybe he wasn't home. translation: the doorbell rang at a time when i don't really like opening the door, so i went back to sleep. translation: then i rang his phone, and i finally made contact. translation: it was a very insistent ring, so i finally went to answer it and there's a guy looking at me in amazement, saying, "have you not seen the ship?" the cargo vessel, which is more than 400-feet long, was travelling through the trondheim fjord when it went off-course. norwegian police believe the person steering the vessel may have fallen asleep.

efforts to refloat the ship have so far failed, so mr helberg says he's now getting used to having what he described as "an uncomfortably close bulky new neighbour". graham satchell, bbc news. we just want to bring you up-to-date on that breaking story we brought you with the top of the show, in france, eight people had been found guilty after us reality tv star kim kardashian's robert at gunpoint. millions of dollars worth of jewellery in paris. this was back in 2016. the four people who took part in the heights were given prison sentences of up to eight years, but most of these terms, it is important to say, or suspended. two people were actually acquitted here. nine men and one woman in total are accused of carrying out this theft of, aiding the armed burglary of $10 million worth of jewellery. as we said, this was back in 2016, around paris fashion week, when miss kardashian was in paris at the time, and she has welcomed the verdict and

think the french judicial system for finding

i'm sumi welcome back to the context on bbc news. how our correspondent lost the barrel on two wheels of the mobile broadcasting a commendable stolen in the hague. -- mobile broadcasting equipment. that story in a moment, but first, a us judge has temporarily blocked the trump administration decision to block harvard university from admitting overseas students. the university argues the band is a violation of the us constitution and says it will have a devastating impact. it accuses the government of retaliating over its refusal to surrender its academic independence. the white house